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Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, suggested that he no longer plans to retire after federal judges ruled against a Republican-backed plan to alter Texas’ congressional districts on Tuesday.

Doggett had announced his qualified retirement earlier this year after Texas Republicans revealed a new redistricting map that would have pitted Doggett, 79, against fellow Texas Democratic Rep. Rep. Greg Casar, 36. Now that map’s future is in jeopardy, however.

“To borrow from Mark Twain I can happily say that the reports of my death politically are greatly exaggerated,” Doggett said in a video posted to social media.

“I’m very fortunate to have the opportunity to continue to represent the only town I’ve ever called home, at a time when democracy faces the gre

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